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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.03.007
	Unexpected climate impacts on the Tibetan Plateau: LOCAL and scientific knowledge in findings of delayed summer
	Klein J.A.; Hopping K.A.; Yeh E.T.; Nyima Y.; Boone R.B.; Galvin K.A.
发表日期	2014
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	28 期号:1
英文摘要	Knowledge of climate change and its impacts can facilitate adaptation efforts. However, complex system dynamics, data scarcity, and heterogeneity often generate both contradictory findings and unexpected climate change impacts. Here we present local ecological knowledge of climate and ecological change in central Tibet to support the finding of delayed summer on the Tibetan Plateau, a finding that has been subject to vigorous, ongoing debate based on Western scientific data. Tibetans who actively herd on a daily basis and are located at higher elevations were most likely to notice changes in seasonality, reported as later start of summer and green-up, and as delayed and shortened livestock milking season. Local meteorological data, indigenous observations of higher snowlines and long-term animal number data suggest that a regional warming trend, rather than land use change, may underlie the delayed phenology trends. We demonstrate that local ecological knowledge can reveal counter-intuitive outcomes and help resolve apparent contradictions through its strengths in situations of high variability, ability to integrate over a range of variables and time scales, and operation outside of Western scientific logic. This suggests local knowledge does not exist to be confirmed or disproved by Western science, but rather can also advance Western science and help contribute to its debates. It is precisely points of apparent contradiction within and between knowledge systems that are most productive for more extensive inquiry. Future research on climate change, and climate adaptation policy-making, will benefit from careful, contextual dialog with local observations, focusing on observable biophysical phenomena that are affected by temperature and precipitation and that are important to livelihoods. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Climate change; Local ecological knowledge; Pastoralism; Phenology; Tibetan Plateau
学科领域	biophysics; climate effect; climate modeling; environmental education; livestock farming; meteorology; regional climate; summer; climate change; dairy farming; land use change; pastoralism; phenology; policy making; seasonality; traditional knowledge; warming; China; Qinghai-Xizang Plateau; Animalia
语种	英语
scopus关键词	biophysics; climate effect; climate modeling; environmental education; livestock farming; meteorology; regional climate; summer; climate change; dairy farming; land use change; pastoralism; phenology; policy making; seasonality; traditional knowledge; warming; China; Qinghai-Xizang Plateau; Animalia
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117723
作者单位	Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Campus Delivery 1476, Fort Collins, CO 80523, United States; Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Campus Delivery 1499, Fort Collins, CO 80523, United States; Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Campus Box 260, Boulder, CO 80309, United States; Institute of Social Development and Western China Development Studies, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China; Department of Anthropology, Colorado State University, Campus Delivery 1787, Fort Collins, CO 80523, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Klein J.A.,Hopping K.A.,Yeh E.T.,et al. Unexpected climate impacts on the Tibetan Plateau: LOCAL and scientific knowledge in findings of delayed summer[J],2014,28(1).
APA	Klein J.A.,Hopping K.A.,Yeh E.T.,Nyima Y.,Boone R.B.,&Galvin K.A..(2014).Unexpected climate impacts on the Tibetan Plateau: LOCAL and scientific knowledge in findings of delayed summer.Global Environmental Change,28(1).
MLA	Klein J.A.,et al."Unexpected climate impacts on the Tibetan Plateau: LOCAL and scientific knowledge in findings of delayed summer".Global Environmental Change 28.1(2014).